About this site
| Registered users will be able to access our tutorial page , explaining how you can contribute to the site and to the One World Week community. You can upload photos, news articles and events to the site, or download resources. It may sound scary, but we'll hold your hand through the process and are available to talk to if you have major problems. There's also a FAQ page to turn to if you are having difficulties. |
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Resources for Schools and Nursery"Growing up Global" - Early Years Global Education Handbook A handbook packed with over 70 activities! 12 sections; family, garden, food, senses, music & games, story tent, ghana, south africa, india, china, mexico, trinidad & tobago, resource cd with weblinks, and an extensive recommended book list. Demonstrates how global education can be a thread running through learning and teaching right from the start. A must for anyone working with the under 5s. Order it from This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or phone 0118 9586692; Primary and SecondaryImpacts of climate change Practical Action has a specific website on climate choices with comprehensive resources for different key stages and links to various parts of the curriculum. See for example: interactive website for children aged 9-11 years; PowerPoint presentations (eg about floating gardens to beat the floods in Bangladesh) , Stories for KS3 and 4 and games. All are based on their work on adaptive technologies, together with people in countries adversely affected by climate change now. Practical Action also address sustainable technology in their STEP programme for KS3. Resources relating to the environment from CAFOD New resources from Christian Aid
See below for special offers. Islamic Relief Schools Zone This website is well worth exploring generally. It has very useful material about emergency and development aid with plenty of case studies. A Resource for Schools Key Stage 4+, written by Muhammad Ibrahim A and AS levelSustainable design Practical Action also offer a sustainable technological design competition to challenge older students. School and College Linking across the world and Global Focus Weeks
globalgateway is one of many school linking schemes. This one is DES/British Council. Its Global Focus Weeks offer an appropriate opportunity for One World Week in schools (Remember, you choose the week so it doesn't matter if the published dates fall in Half Term). There are useful examples of what is feasible on the site and the topics fit well with some of OWW's concerns so an opportunity to explore together them with children around the world and listen to their perspectives. Christian Aid resources for schools and youth groupsNew Game, 'The Poverty Challenge' [age 11 and above] £8.99 |